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Nvidia has announced its latest generation of gaming-oriented GPUs, based on the "Ampere" microarchitecture on a customized Samsung "8nm" process node.
The GeForce RTX 3080 ($700) has 10 GB of GDDR6X VRAM and will be released on September 17. TDP is up significantly, at 320 Watts compared to 215 Watts for the RTX 2080. The GeForce RTX 3070 ($500) has 8 GB of GDDR6 and a TDP of 220 Watts. The GeForce RTX 3090 ($1500) is the top card so far with a whopping 24 GB of GDDR6X VRAM. The GPU is physically much larger than the other two models and it has a 350 Watt TDP.
Nvidia's performance benchmarks should be treated with caution, since the company is often using ray-tracing and/or DLSS upscaling in its comparisons. But the RTX 3070 will outperform the RTX 2080 Ti at less than half the launch price, as it has 35% more CUDA cores at higher clock speeds.
Nvidia also announced some new features such as Nvidia Reflex (4m53s video), Broadcast, Omniverse Machinima, and RTX IO. Nvidia Broadcast includes AI-derived tools intended for live streamers. RTX Voice can filter out background noises, greenscreen effects can be applied without the need for a real greenscreen, and an autoframing feature can keep the streamer centered in frame while they are moving. Nvidia RTX IO appears to be Nvidia's response to the next-generation consoles' use of fast SSDs and dedicated data decompression.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series | Official Launch Event (39m29s video)
Previously: Micron Accidentally Confirms GDDR6X Memory, and Nvidia's RTX 3090 GPU
(Score: 3, Redundant) by bart9h on Wednesday September 02 2020, @12:00AM (4 children)
I won't even consider buying from you if you don't give a damn about the quality of your drivers for Linux.
I don't mind to get a little behind in performance, I still prefer to run something with good open source drivers.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday September 02 2020, @12:47AM (3 children)
You're not the target market. The majority of these are sold for HCI farms, used for things like VDI. Some are put in for server farms hooked up to a SAN, used for financial analysis in addition to VDI. They don't know or care that your Linux box exists. And they run on Linux just fine. Just not for your use case of games or wayland. For compute.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @05:07PM
Yes, we know. Disgusting fucking whores use Nvidia.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @05:14PM (1 child)
Eventually Linux will take over those markets, and we will all remember who Nvidia really is.
(Score: 1) by fakefuck39 on Friday September 04 2020, @12:37AM
me: "they run on Linux just fine"
you: "Eventually Linux will take over those markets"
the stupid is very strong here. very strong.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @12:03AM (1 child)
Huge, expensive, high performance, doubles as a space heater. Looks like they're worried about AMD again.
Like the above poster, I won't consider nVidia as long as there are no decent free drivers.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday September 02 2020, @12:06AM
AMD will at least release something that can compete with the RTX 3080. They will start leaking things this month, make an announcement by October, and launch by November.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @12:05AM (2 children)
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3573248/nvidia-rtx-retrospective-what-two-years-of-ray-tracing-and-dlss-got-us.html [pcworld.com]
(Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday September 02 2020, @12:14AM (1 child)
Turing/RTX 1st-gen was an expensive ray-tracing beta test that used marketing to mask a meager performance uplift and obvious price uplift.
Ampere will actually be good, for people who are willing to buy Nvidia (they are disproportionately hated here). It will also make ray-tracing more viable. AMD will also introduce hardware-accelerated ray-tracing this year in both its RDNA2 "Big Navi" GPUs and the next-gen consoles.
*USED* RTX 2080 Ti cards were selling for $1,000-$1,300 in recent weeks, and are now selling below $500 [wccftech.com] instantly following this announcement. There should be some funny stories/gloating about that.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday September 02 2020, @07:07AM
>Nvidia (they are disproportionately hated here)
yep I concur we should hate 'em more.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @01:37AM (3 children)
Because that is what you will be feeding them.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday September 02 2020, @02:10AM
Note that custom and highly overclocked versions of the RTX 3090 could use more like 400 Watts.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday September 02 2020, @08:35AM (1 child)
At 3.3V, 350W means about 110 of them Amperes.
At 12V, only 30.
As a heuristic, a MIG welder needs about 1A for each 0.025mm metal thickness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by EvilSS on Wednesday September 02 2020, @09:11PM